Description

Aoccdrnig to a rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae.
The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm.
Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef but the wrod as a wlohe.

This plugin implements a version of an algorithm that will produce text similar to the above.
Basically it changes each word by randomising the order of the letters, leaving the first and last letter of each word the same.

You implement this on your website using the [bbboing] shortcode.

The syntax is:

[bbboing
text=”seed|text – some text to obfuscate”
form=”N|Y – display form to allow changes”
both=”N|Y – display both original and output text”]

If you don’t specify any parameters you get a ‘bbboing’ed version of the original text.

Examples:
[bbboing text=”code is poetry”] may produce ‘code is peroty’ or ‘cdoe is pretoy’
[bbboing text=’powered by WordPress’] may produce ‘prweoed by WrdsorPes’

It’s also feasible that the randomisation produces exactly the same output as input.
So [bbboing text=’bobbing wide’] may produce ‘bobbing wide’

Of course, nothing happens for words with fewer than 4 letters so
[bbboing text=’it is not a con’] WILL produce the same output as input.

You may notice that some spammers/spambots intentionally misspell words when creating comments.
bbboing does not in anyway endorse this.

Please use bbboing for your own amusement.

Note: the bbboing plugin is dependent upon the oik plugin.

Screenshots

Example of [bbboing form=y cols=80 text="some text"]

FAQ

Installation

Upload the contents of the bbboing plugin to the `/wp-content/plugins/bbboing’ directory

Activate the bbboing plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

Whenever you want to produce some ‘bbboing’ed text use the [bbboing] shortcode.

Note: bbboing is dependent upon the oik plugin. You can activate it but it will not work unless oik is also activated.

Where does bbboing come from?

bbboing is an anagram of bobbing, which is part of my company name ( bobbing wide – hence my WordPress.org username ).
Furthermore it’s an anagram where the first and last letters of the word are not changed.
‘bbboing’ is just one of the possible results of running the algorithm against ‘bobbing’.

What does obfuscate mean?

Render obscure, unclear, or unintelligible. Bewilder (someone).

What is this plugin for?

The purpose of this plugin is to be entertaining, educational and experimental.

Entertaining in that it produces an obfuscated version of some text following the “rules” defined in https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/

Educational in that it shows an example of a plugin developed using the oik application programming interface, implementing lazy smart shortcodes.
* smart – the shortcodes understand the content in which they’re invoked
* lazy – the code to evaluate the shortcode is loaded on demand, when the shortcode is used.

Experimental: some very similar code is being used to automatically generate language files for a locale identified as bb_BB.

Can you tell me more about the research?

See https://www.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/people/matt.davis/Cmabrigde/

See also the definition of typoglycemia, where the original text is longer than the example used here.typoglycemia

Further reading

If you want to read more about oik plugins and themes then please visit oik-plugins

Contributors & Developers

“bbboing” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.